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Alexander Klimetschek commented on SLING-3524:
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Note that use of {{ResourceResolverFactory.USER_IMPERSONATION}} (to self) does 
not work either, since the 
[JcrResourceProviderFactory|https://github.com/apache/sling/blob/trunk/bundles/jcr/resource/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/jcr/resource/internal/helper/jcr/JcrResourceProviderFactory.java#L364]
 prevents from impersonating itself and returns the original session.

I think the problem is that the 
JcrResourceProviderFactory.getResourceProviderInternal() method that handles 
authentication info, is designed for an initial login (resource resolver 
creation). A clone has different semantics (such as avoiding a shared session), 
so this likely needs a separate code path.

> ResourceResolver.clone(null) should not share the same JCR session
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>
>                 Key: SLING-3524
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-3524
>             Project: Sling
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ResourceResolver
>    Affects Versions: Resource Resolver 1.0.6
>            Reporter: Alexander Klimetschek
>
> {{ResourceResolver.clone()}} will reuse the same JCR session in case it was 
> created by passing an existing session using 
> {{JcrResourceConstants.AUTHENTICATION_INFO_SESSION}}. If you need a clone of 
> the resource resolver to pass into a new, separate thread, and use 
> {{ResourceResolver.clone(null)}}, you will actually share the session, but 
> this is not obvious. The problem is that a JCR session cannot be shared 
> across threads.
> The javadocs of clone() say "the same credential data is used as was used to 
> create this instance".
> There are a few problems with this:
> - seeing the session object itself as "credential data" is unintuitive
> - in my code, I have no idea what the original credential data was, so I 
> don't know what kind of credential data it was to make the right decision
> - since sharing a JCR session is to be avoided at all times, the resource 
> resolver should prevent one from this
> A solution would be if a plain {{ResourceResolver.clone(null)}} would return 
> a session that impersonated itself, abstracting this from the resource 
> resolver user. Additionally, it might be worth looking that clone always 
> returns a new session, unless specifically stated.



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